Essentials:  90 mins

Group size: 5-25

Audience:   People / line managers of employees in their early career

Overview

Starting a new career after leaving education can be an exciting and daunting time. It is also a time laced with ‘expectations’. In some cases, it may be the individual’s first full-time role outside of an educational setting.
As a manager, how you support and manage your graduates, apprentices and any employee early in their career is crucial for their successful integration into the workplace. It supports their career growth and ensures a smooth transition into permanent roles.

This course will provide insight into the unique challenges that employees in their early career face and how you, as a manager, can support them. Often, people in their early careers put unreasonably high expectations on themselves and can experience Unhealthy Perfectionism. This course will give managers a deeper understanding of how to support employees to aim for excellence in a healthy way, how to ensure expectations are wellbeing-centric and what to do if a direct report might be struggling with their mental health.

The course will also explore some of the expectations new entrants have of their employers, in particular with regards to supporting their wellbeing, and how workplaces can better be equipped to ensure that this matches the reality of working life. We will also discuss the expectations you have as a manager of these early careers entrants and how these can be achieved by setting positive boundaries.

Learning will be put into practice as our expert trainers will facilitate tailored case study discussions.

Learning outcomes

• By the end of the course, participants will:
• Be familiar with common mental health conditions and spot signs and symptoms of poor mental health
• Recognise the most common causes of work-related stress and its contribution to mental ill health
• Understand the line manager behaviours that can help prevent workplace stress
• Consider how diversity in people – ethnicity, neurodivergent, early careers – can be intersectional with mental health
• Feel confident to have a supportive and appropriate conversation about mental health with direct reports, whilst maintaining healthy boundaries
• Know about internal support and resources, so they can signpost colleagues and access for themselves
• Actively consider their own mental health and wellbeing, and how they can protect and nurture it
• Understand how they can actively support and develop a mentally healthy workplace culture and their role as leaders in challenging stigma

Course content

By the end of the course, participants will be able to:

• Understand the difference between healthy striving for excellence and unhealthy perfectionism.
• Identify behaviours and signals associated with developing unhealthy perfectionism and learn strategies to support employees who might be experiencing these.
• Learn how to set positive boundaries and expectations so that young employees can thrive from the start
• Gain practical skills in how to have a supportive and appropriate conversation about mental health with those in their early career, whilst maintaining healthy boundaries
• Know internal support and resources – to signpost direct reports and access for themselves.

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